"Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes."

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"No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve."

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"There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair."

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"There's no taking trout with dry breeches."

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"Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within."

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"Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd."

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"He had a face like a blessing."

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"The eyes those silent tongues of love."

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"If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne."

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"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground."

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"He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals."

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"Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man."

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"A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him."

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"By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never."

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"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."

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"Man appoints, and God disappoints."

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"Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice."

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"Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice."

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"Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?"

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"It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow."

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"For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future."

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"You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne."

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"A person dishonored is worst than dead."

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"The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise."

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"Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse."

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